The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-05 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COBIKERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELTE O'CLOCK. There ware no bullion operations of importance at the Bank on Saturday. Th e m ass iii a , which left yesterday for India and China, conveyed £176,389, principally silver. The Wellesley has arrived from Port Philip, With. £94,936, The failure was announced on Saturday of Mest , rs. Palmer and Co., East India merchants, of Calla m-street, with liabilities amounting to nearly 1:200,600. The accounts from the manufacturing districts for the past week have in most instances been of a less satisfactory character. At Manchester there has been less demand for both cloths and yarns, although priers remained steady. The woollen trade of Lan cashire, Bradford, and Huddersfield has been rather dull, while at Leicester and Northampton there has been a fair business transacted in most descriptions of hosiery and lace. In the hardware distriots of Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton, there has been little change of importance to report. A general meeting of shareholders of the Credit Mobilier was held to day, and the proposal for paying a dividend and bonus of L 2 per share, free of income.tax, and for an amalgamation with the Credit Foncier was carried unanimously. A meeting of the Credit Foncier was also held, and like pro positions for the payment of dividend and for amal gamating with the Credit Mobilier were carried. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this day, accrrding to Mr. Reuter's telegram, 09 French 3 per Cents. were 66f, 70c. Heavy. The English Stock Market during the earlier part of the day exhibited reactionary symptoms, and a recovery of k- per cent. was reported. Since then, however, continued sales have forced down prices 4 lower, and Consols for money and the Bth are 881 88, and for October, 881 a. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 86 k ; Exchequer Bills, 20s. dis. ; and India Stock is 212. Foreign Stocks have also generally declined, and business is very dull. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70 / ; do. Consolides, 50f, ; Mexican, 271 28} ; do. New, 25/ 4 ; Greek, 23f, g ; Spanish Passiv e , 30 ; 314; do. Certificates, 131 ; Portuguese, 471 and the Confederate Loan, 75/ 76/ In the Railway Share Market there has been very little animation, and prices in most instances have shown less firmness. South Eastern, Brighton, and South Western have each declined 10s. ; and Great Eastern, Metropolitan, and North Eastern (Berwick) ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain very dull at about former values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares show very little animation, and quotations exhibit no material change. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do Account, Aug. 8 3 per Cent. Reduced Now 3 per Cent Now 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894... . Do s"p er C ent., Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire tithJ an., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Mach. June. 20 25 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 & 31 per Cent. Do X5OO .... Do £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, 51 per Ct. Do Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent,, April 1874 212 Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 187 U Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 Do Certificates Do Account Do 1. per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Do 41 pe t C ent . Do Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Do 5 per C en t . , J an. 1872 — Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 D 0 Bunds£l,ooo Do under £l,OOO •••• FOREIGN FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Brazilian 5 per Cent. . ........ . .... — Do 41 per Cent., 1852-68-60 •851 D 0.863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do Account.... - Chilian 6 per Cent,. Colombian 6 per Cent Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Cent, 1864 Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do 4 per Cent, 1863 Equa.dor NCW Consolidated, 1 per Cent -- Do, Provisonal Land Warrant. ... — Egyptian 7 per „Cent 991 8 Do, Ser;ond Issue Greek 5 per C ent. , 1 824-5, ex-Coupons.. . —Do A ccount Do Coup ons 24 Do Account Gnat emala 5 per Cent. 1)( 1839 and 1869 Itali an 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Me lean 3 per Cent Du Account Do 1864 D o French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c 6 per Cent. Anglo-French die Ds tto Scrip, £23 paid Moos ish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada .. .. Dc , 2 per Cent. Do Deferred DO Land Warrants (Hectares) Do D e o bentures, 4 per Ct., Ap r il 186 4 — D do P. ian 41 per Cent Aug., 1866 .00 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Dc. 41 per Cent., 1862 1)(, .. Account. ..... Port u.pese • 3 .•. •..... 79/ per Cent., 1853 •••• Ms Account 1)1) 3 per Cent,, 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 ) Account 47i I Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 4 1. per Ce n t., 1850 .. 8 5? Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent 1859 • Do per Cent, 1862 B7l Do Anglo-Dutch Do 13crip, £4O paid ............ —Pm 0 Sardin'u ln +5 per Cent 0 .ccount SpDo anis: a 3 per Cent , Iccuunt Do New Deferred Do Account ..• DDc Passive ...... .... (. Account .................. 311 Spas wish Cert. of Coup not funded ...... Account Swedish, 4 per C ent l 3/ 14 13 700 Scrip, £6O paid -- Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Do A ccount :Do 6 per Cent. 1858 .00.0,ccount Do .£lOO Bonds 1)0 6 per Cent. 1862 3)0 Account . . 70 1)0 £lOO Bonds .................... 70g Do 1863 .............. .100 Guaratteed, 4 per Cent.. ......... bo 1863 Scrip, £4O paid ............ pCnez-uela 3 per Cvnt. ................ , Account _ or _ ea • .. •• Do " As l e ' colui U t . t . . .. 852 ............. ... 571 7 Do per Cent., iidi .................... .. .47 7 Dividends on the above -paYablo in London A r Mrian, 5 per c ent. 14 , 10 Florins. Do A.:count ..... B per Cera::i;;..'4'ie: ........ ntch 2 per Cent., Ex. i 2 r Dn 1 per Cent. Certi'..icatea ...... Itglints, 5 per Cert., 7 , 861, . Do A.ceount ..... .. French Rentes, 2 per Cent. ................ (1(31, P . eruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct.E.,t,',*:. P i"" la -teses rt per Cent., Ex. 25t ... 1 ... Consols Money o' CLOCK. i Do Account.... 87i 8 Liverpool Cotton Market_ This Da .arket dull. Sales probably 4,000 bales r The Money Market now exhibits symptoms of stringency, and there seems little likelihood of a return to easier rates for some time to come. The brokers require 8 per cent, as their minimum quo tation even for the best short dated paper, and as preparations are now in progress for various pay ments, such as revenue and the other usual liqui dations as the termination of the year approaches, the demand for accommodation has recency been more active. With this additional inquiry for ca pita], much of the recent surplus or the market no doubt, soon be worked off, and as a re sumption of shipments of specie to the East has commenced the public foresee very little chance of cheaper money prevailing during the remainder of tie present year. SHARE itIARKETS—This day: ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOM. Sliami l Railways. Paid. Closing Business Price. done. I 15.14. L'ir., Wol., and Str. Vl.l a st '3'3-the and Tyo.z. 1 100 at Bristol and Exeter 1 100 at Caledonian .......... t 100 50 Cork and Bandon a:1 20 Cornwall all A gets no di -10 Do. B 10 Do A t osp c.p an 11 . all -I, „ been paid tOhas; B. 50 Dublin & Belfast June.' all 25 Dun.,Perth,& At, Juno. I all et Edinburgh & Glasgow.; 100 at Glasg. and S. Western.: 100 st at Great Eaattrn, Ord. stkj 100 Ditto A stock st Ditto PastAnglian st 100 et GreatNorthoi Scotland; 100 St I • 31- eq Northern.. i 100 at Ito A stock lOO at Do 13 do ! 100 at flit.S. awl W. of Irolt3n : 100 st Great Westerv,Original 100 at Do Str Val frl:a. Moen 100 at Do. South Wales ,CO et Do. West :aid. -oxford, lu9 At Do Newport 1 0 0 it Do neretord I 1 0 ' 1 st Lancashire & Yorkshire) 160 st London and lilackwail, 100 at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 st Lon., Chat., and Dover! 1 :,A) at Lon. & North Weate: n l 100 at Lon. & So.,th Wc:,„t ern . 100 at Man., Stint, & lincolni 100 50 Maryport v: ld Carlisle. all st Nfetr r 121 Do j s' - _,a res .., all at mi j:iia . ja p d oli tan all 100 st , Do Birtning. & Derbyi 100 50 \lid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 15 Do. i shares 25 Mid Kent at North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee, 100 at Nth. Eastern—Berwioal 100 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 at Do Leeds lOO at Do York at Do Carlisle lOO 25 Do. Stock. & Darling, all 25 Do do 1855-58 l9 25 Do do 16q(-51 .. •• i 11 at North London i 100 : 10 Do New 5 1 1 Do Ne '3', 1864. — et North Staffordshire. 1 all 1 0 N. and S. W. Junction ' all et Scottish Central ' 100 St Soot. N. E., Aber. atonal 100 at Do Scot. Mid. stook lOO 10 Shrews, and Welohpooll all et Shropshire Union st South Devon...„ lOO st South Eastern at South Wales st S. York. and River Dun 100 20 staines,Wok.,andWok., all et Taff Vale.. ; 100 1 0 Do B ,j 8 10 Do C ........••....- 3 et Vale of Neatli at Waterford & Kilkenny; 100 at West Cot - await lOO at W. Hartlepool Har.&R ; 100 ~r. a ~,:; A 4 16 1214 1254 6 7 32 34 16 17 83 91 111 113 46} 474 7 7a ISO 131 141 14: 127 13) 10 92 684 69 1156 116 65 67 10z 103 90 42 1121 1121 Usi I'4) 65 0 107 108 1311 111/ 101 1(3 54 65 25 26 105 i 106 j 64 65 93 94 36 37 9 10 I, 123 126 1i II 75 77 11 Ili 125 130 67 59 24 36 83i 84 101 103 7 8 IEO 165 .5 6 , 2 3 u 101 103 34 36 ]24} 4 z , " • Tif:1 1 " - e r blirt Du- , rtribr HER MAJESTY, BALMORAL, Sept. 2. The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha, Princess ILlena, and Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds of the Castle yesterday morning. In the afternoon her Majesty, with Princess He lena and Princess Beatrice, drove to Abergeldie. The Prirc3 and Princess of \Vales honoured the gathering at Braemar with their presence, his royal highness being one of tLe patrons. SErr. 3. The Queen, accompanied by their royal high !teases the Duchess of Slxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Helena, walked and drove in the grounds of the Castle yesterday morning. Her Majesty in the afternoon drove out with the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Prince Leopold. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with her Majesty last night. Their royal highnesses left Abergeldie Castle at ten o'clock this morning to embark at Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, in her Majesty's steam yacht Osborne, for Copenhagen. His Royal Highness Prince Victor Albert of Wales accompanied his royal parents. As arranged at present, her Majesty the Queen, with the Royal Family, will leave Balmoral on Monday, Oct. 24, and arrive at Windsor Castle on the following day to breakfast, Prince Alfred will return to England in about three weeks, when his Royal Highness will go to Scotland, and remain at Balmoral until the return of tho Court to Windsor. Extensive alterations and embellishments are being made in the private apartments of the Castle. Nearly one hundred workpeople are employed in the various rooms since her Majesty's departure. All the Equerries' apartments are being newly decorated. Carpeting is being laid down.—four Journal. His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador left Chandoe House on Saturday for Vienna, on leave of absence for a couple of months. The Countess Apponyi goes to Baden- Baden in a fortnight. The Duke of Newcastle is in about the same state of health as when he left town. His grace is very weak and does not take any out-door exercise. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing 3 hart Railways 10 0 Itlantie &St Lawrenei all 58 60 Sk P lorn.,Barodatt.Centln , 10.. 101 102 1013 a Gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. E. Shares..... 74 dis p '404 and Lake furor all 54 10 Do. Preteronce all 74 84 100 duilalo,BrantazGodriel 100 75 80 1 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1`37. 100 1)0. do. July 1, 187. 100 75 80 100 )o. do. June 1, PK-, 100 75 80 et „ llcutta.&S.Eastn.(l.ii: 100 97 9.) st 'anoTown W Dock Seri 10n 94 95 100 Demerara 7 p.c. per. pf all .tock aatain. Beng a l g u.y . •tuu 102 104 101 Stool East Indian. gu. sp. c ton 101 102 1014 3 1 20 Do. do. ti Ext all 192 201 20 Do. do. H do. stook r 4 rand Truna of Caned, 1.0 19 2) 181 19 1 0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per ce, - nt all 91 93 100 Do. Ist t'rei. ,„, 7 1 73 72 100 Do. do. def;, f red..„„ all 60 63 100 Do. 2d fret. Bonds all 65 67 100 Do. ( 1 .0. deferred all 55 57 :00 Do, 3d Pref. stock all 48 51 10 0 1:o. do. deferred all 43 45 100 Do, 4th Pref. stook all 27 29 0 Do. do. deferred all 26 28 stook (3 Llndiarenln.gua.sp.c 100 1(2 103 1023 10 Do. Newgua. sp. e l2 par 4p stook Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent 100 99 101 stock Do. 42 per cent, 100 stock Do zvl t. \V. of Canada Sh are , af t 9:4 10 92 20 Do. New 18 10,1 105, 74 10 0 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 89 91 100 Do. 54 p. a do. '77-8 all 82 81, 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 d 4p stook Hach's..., guar., sp. c. stook4Qp. o. Extensio) 100 93 05 stook 110.44 do lOO 89 01 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 stck. Ilelb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnth 100 llelh. 3; Hobson's Bay. all :A (0 '. 90 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. all 90 Newßronswick Cand: Class A. and B all N. Itl.C'da6 pc Ist pi wit 100 80 83 steel: scinde (100 994 100) stock . so. Delhi I 100 994 1000 10 Do. do I 2 id par 17G Punjaub g. 1 all 9)4 100; Do. Do. . , f r w-i I stock Indus. St. '` 10(..) 95 97 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 5 per cent., Dec. 3:, 1872.... 103 Do. do. 1883.... 100 lin.tio7.6p.c.Ja. &J to‘ 1877-84 100 95 90 954 6 Do. ap. 0. Feb. & Auf. - . 100 86 09 D 0.6 p. e.Mar . St Sept 100 98 102 Do. sp. a. Jan.ez.luiy. lOi 84 86 Do. 5 Inscribed stool 100 84 86 'ape G.llope, 3 p 0,187: 100 ¶O4 100 Do.Ap & Oct. 1881 100 tO7 109 Do. 181 A 100 (9 111 'bo. Jan. & July, 1891. 100 107 101 7eylon, N0v.1878, 6 n 1')0 110 112 111} dauritins 6 p.cent. 1873 100 1 03 1 05 Do. 1878 •00 103 106 Do. 1882 IC4 tOl 103 Natal Gov. 6 per cont.. IJu tri4 107 -- 4.13.G0v. 6 p.o.J a.tizJul; 100 97 100 Do. 6p. c.A.p. & Oot. 100 S.W. G ov. 5 p 180. 100 97 99 Do. sp. c.,18/1 to 167 t 100 96 98 Do. d0.,1888 ..tupwdk 100 96 08 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 101 Nora Scotia Gov. 6p. c. aterling, 1375. lOO 99 102 4ueensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 100 103 i. Anti G 6p.c.1878.& up.. 103 106 108 Vio.Gov, 6 p.o. Ja.,Sr.July 100 - Do. lc; 6 p.e. An..tOct.. 100 ,09 110 1091 The Earl and Countess of Derby, who were on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Longshawe Lodge, Derbyshire, from Monday to Friday last, have returned to Knowsley. The noble earl intends to leave Kiowsley the week after next for Doncaster, where he will pass the week. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have en tertained a succession of visitors at Bretby Park since the commencement of the past week. Oa Monday, the celebra tion of Lord Stanhope's birthday, there was a cricket match in front of the hall. Among the guests staying at Bretby during the week were the Earl of Coventry, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvoa, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl Annesley, Mr Payne, Captain Little, Hon, Col. and Mrs Curzon and Miss Anson, Hon. Francis and Mrs Stonor, Hon. Colonel Forester, Mr Forester, Hon. E. C. Leigh, &c. Viscount Palmerston, who came to town on Saturday evening from Wales and Hereford, left yesterday afternoon• to join her ladyship at Brockett Hall, Herts. Lord and Lady Poltimore's party last week, dur. lag the races at Exeter, included the Earl of Portsmouth, Sir Stafford and Lady Northcote, Mr A. Seymour, Colo• nel and Mrs Acland, Mr Fleming, Lord and Lady Il cheater, 5.;-.3. Lady Mary Craven has left Thomapa Hotel, Berkeley-Square, for Drakelow, Burton-on-Trent, The Countess Schouvaloff and family have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-Equare, for the Continent. Colonel the Hon, W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot have arrived at Munich, on their way home from Germany. They intend to make a tour in Switzerland before they re turn to England. Sir Andrew Buchanan, the English Ambassador at Berlin, who is now at Potsdam awaiting the accouche. went of the Crown Princess of Prussia, will visit England for a short period after that event, and will proceed to his new post at St Petersburg about the middle of October. In a fortnight from this date Millie. Victoire Balfe (late Lady Crampton), the daughter of our great composer, will espouse a grandee of Spain, who unites with his title of duke and a large fortune the best qualities of head and heart.— Thc ['reha' a. BRITISH MINES. A NEW RIDE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK—Altera tions of an extensive character are going on in St. James's-park, with a view to provide a ride for horsemen, such as that of Rottenrow, in Hyde-park. The portion of the park which ➢lr. Cowper, the Chief Commissioner of Works, has set apart for this purpose extends from Storey's gate to Buckingham Palace, being the whole length of Birdcage-walk, It has hitherto formed part of what is known as the enclosure, which has been devoted to the use of persons who are not fortunate enough to have horses and carriages, and who have extensively availed themselves of it for the purposes of recreation. A space between 30 and 40 feet of ground in depth, along the whole length of the walk, has been dug up, and is now a rudis iradigestaque moles. In the course of a few days the railings on the north side of Birdcage-walk will be removed 30 or 40 feet back, and that largo and important strip of ground will be cut off from the enclosure. As soon as the necessary arrangements can he made, it will be thrown open as a ride for the exclusive use of the aristocracy. THE PRINCE OF WALES'S SEAT IN NORFOLK. —SANDItINGHAM, Sept. I.—Great preparations are being made for the reception of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales for the shooting season after their return from Denmark. The prospects of the shooting season on the royal estate are very good, as there is a great quantity of partridges, an abundance of pheasants, and every variety of game. Tho very dry season has of course been very favourable tolgame preserving, and, poach ing being almost unknown here, the principal enemy which the keepers have had has been Master Reynard, a good supply of foxes being preserved by the directions of the prince. The alterations and improvement which have been and are being made under the direction of Mr Carmichael, the resident steward, are very marked, and have already completely changed tho aspect of the estate. The plantations, which had become completely overgrown and choked with rank underwood have been thinned, por tions of the park have been raised and planted, and new and excellent roads made. A new anti commodious house hare been provided within the park for the head keeper, and on the table land before it have been constructed 18 large pheasantries, each being about fifty feet square, all connected, and forming one large and compact block. Tile kitchen garden, which has been laid out, and is to supply the teyal table with fruit and N'e;;etables throughout the year, comprises 15 acresof land, 7 of which are comp l ete l y enc l osed `title brick walls, that on Ike north side being of great height, and parallel with, it are six large grape conserva tories. The new le;,,ourers, dwellings each of which is pro vided with three sleeping apartments, approach completion, and others are to be commenced. All the old cottages have been repaired, painted, and ingrained. The royal stables have beat Mill further extended, so as to show uniformity of appearance, and aff'rd sufficient accommodation for his royal highness's stud. The comptroller's house, which is really a very beautiful mansion, situated in the park to the south-west of the hall, is completed. A model of Sandring ham Hall has been constructed according to the plan of Mr Humbert, and if they aro carried out a splendid palace will supersede the present modest mansion of Sandringham House. Nothing has as yet been decided in the matter- The beautiful Norwich gates and their accompaniments are on the point of completion—the decorator being now engaged in putting the finishing touch to them. The Home Farm falls into the hands of the Prince of Wales at Michaelmas. THE GAME SEASON IN THE EAST.—The game season commenced under favourable auspices on Thurs day, in the partridge district of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Lincolnshire. The weather was beautifully fine, the air fresh and invigorating, and it may emphatically be said to have been a " glorious first." Game is considered plentiful, although in come localities partridges have been picked up dead from the effects of the drought. In conse quence of the turnips having attained but a meagre deve lopment, while the birds are very strong and wild, sport° , men have had to put forth active exertions in order to make Up good tags. In the neighbourhood of Stamford many gentlemen were on the alert shortly after 4 a.m. TUE HARVEST IN CUMBERLAND.—Harvestiug is now general in the county of Cumberland, even in the localities that are usually late. The fine weather of the past few weeks has brought the grain well forward, and much is already safe " under thack and rape." The wheat crop is generally spoken of as an average crop ; bar ley and eats have done well in most places. Turnips have been greatly benefi tted by recent rains, and the pastures which in many cases ha.l been quite burnt up by the drought, arc looking better. SINGULAR CASE OF SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE.— Yesterday morning about 6 o'clock, two females called at a coffeehouse at the Market-head, Woolwich, and partook of refreshments, after which one of the women was, at her request, allowed to go up-stairs. Shortly afterwards both parties left the house in a hurried manner, and in conse quence of some suspicious circumstances a search was made, which resulted in the discovery of the body of a newly-born ilitaut secreted iu the apartment which the woman referred to was allowed to enter. The police were immediately in formed and pursuit was made, but neither of the females have yet been apprehended, THE SUN, _LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1864 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS THE " tONDON REVTEW" ON INN I .: I 9 II !EY'S CARE 'QR THE STATE OF Mats HOT'LET 4 B Hopley has appealed from a British jury to the British public at large, in a pamphlet entitled "A Cry for Justice, and for the Souls of my Wife and Children." Whether the meaning of the last portion of the title be that Mrs Hopley is endanger ing her eternal welfare by taking refuge from her husband upon the Continent, or that she has already endangered it by giving evidence against Mr Hopley in the Divorce Court, may be a matter of debate. It is sufficient to say that Mrs Hopley's course makes Mr If opley very anxious for her immortal soul. There are certain natures with whom a quarrel sure to take this theological shape. In some cases, and in some mouths, blessing becomes bitterer and more effective than cursing itself , and to propose to pray for the o'her side is the last and most terrible arrow from the quiver of an angry controversialist. "Charity, my dear," said the injured Mr Peclisniff, "when I take my bedroom candlestick, remind me more particularly to pray f.a. Mr Martin Chuzzlewit." There are some nymphs, and some male angels, too, in whose " orisons" all their neigh bour.' sins are sure to be " remembered ;" and whose devo tional exercises partake not so much of the character of a Liteny as of a Conarnination Service. It would, perhaps, be refusing Mr Hopley that justice for which, with many gushes of religious expostulation, he appeals, if we were to put down to hypocrisy his ostentatious anxiety for the spiritual condition of those who have offended him. He is, doubtless, sincere in the belief that he is an ill-used man. But his missionary efforts to im• prove the souls of his pupils and his family have been attended hitherto with such lamentable results, that when, after all his trials, the missionary vein crops up again as luxuriant as ever, it is perhaps na tural for Mrs. Hopley and her relatives to feel alarmed. Similar phenomena preceded the death of the unhappy boy Chancellor, and accompanied the moulding by which Mrs, Hoplcy was to be made fit to be the mother of juvenile Hopleys. If Mr. Hopley had chastised his unhappy wife out of ill temper and hot blood, there might be some hopes that his long imprisonment might have taught him the necessity of domestic self-control ; but when we discover that all was part and parcel of a pious curriculum, and that Mr. Hopley's victims have been victims rather of his de sire to reform his fellow-creatures than of any natural ferocity, the domestic future of the Hopley household looks very dark indeed. The charge made against the gentle man in question by his wife and by the public is not that he is a Quilp ; nor does Mr. Hopley meet the issue by affirming, with some appearance of truth, that he is far from being a monster in human shape. Nobody says that he is a monster. What is alleged against him is that he carries concern for his fellow-creatures to the verge of mo nomania, and that he polishes and brightens the Christian character of those about him in a way that seriously affects their physical health and comfort. That he has begun again, after so serious a warning, to discuss Mrs Hopley's soul, is, then, not a reassuring symptom. By this time, very possibly Mrs Hopley trembles at the very mention of her soul at all, and when she learns from her secure retreat that Mr. Hopley has been thinking over her immortal pro spects, she will feel like the emancipated slave who dreamed of the cracking of his master's thong. In order to vindicate himself, and partly doubtless in order to expose the true nature of the religious precipice ea er which Mrs Hopley's soul is balancing itself, Mr Hopley prints at considerable length the letters which his wife wrote to him during his confinement, The taste of pub lishing such documents is most questionable, but the ex citement under which he is evidently labouring and the obvious character and mental training of the man render it unnecessary to discuss his conduct from an tethestic point of view. The panegyrics he himself bestows upon his wife's correspondence for refinement and delicacy are pro bably sincere and certainly deserved. No ono can peruse her effusions without a strong feeling of sympathy for the woman who is their author. If it be true (and we see no reason to believe the contrary) that Mr Hopley found his wife when he married her an ignorant and half-educated girl, and has made her an accomplished and clover woman, the fact says nothing for him that might not be conceded by his severest critics. From the fiery ordeal which she entered as a raw young lady Mrs Hopley has emerged a cultivated wife and mother; but, for all that, the process which has been so intellectually successful may have been physical and mental anguish. The great poet who tells us the discipline of pain with which it pleased Heaven to try a lady of hie acquaintance, winds up with the funeral remark— " The saint survived it, but the woman died." It is possible that Mrs Hopley's virtue in like manner increased, pari passer, with her misery ; but the principle which produces hot-house matronly graces at such a cost would justify the worst enormities of a Grand Inquisitor, If it be lawful to do God service at the risk of cruelty to man, there is no form of torture that may not logically be supported. Th.) instinct that leads to such excesses, either in public or in private life, may be termed the peda gogue instinct in its worst and most dangerous form, It is an instinct which has done more to retard progress than any other which can be named; and when it breaks oat violently in private has led men, before now, to the gallows. The feminine devotion and warmth of heart which are conspicuous throughout the whole of Mrs Hopley's corre spondence, do not disprove what the jury have asserted — that Mr Hopley hoc) boon Gruel; it only confirms their fur ther admission, that his cruelty has been unfortunately condoned. It is by no means a rare spectacle .to see a woman, in the hey day of youth and imagination, attracted rather than repelled by harshness. The annals of the police-courts show that many a woman retains her infatuation for some drunken ruffian, who beats her and ill uses her from day to day—and Mr Hopley has posssibly mental qualities sufficient to fascinate the fancy even of a frightened and ill-treated wife. Still less can such a cor respondence be taken to rebut the accusation of original cruelty, when the circumstances are considered under which it was panned. Mr Hopley was at the time in prison, and both he and his wife well knew that he was an outcast from society. If ever a noble and generous woman would feel inclined to condone her injuries, it would be when she felt the loneliness and misery of the man who had been her tyrant. Mrs Hopley in th e Divorce Court, with her own letters before her, solemnlyswore, neverthe• less, that she had been cruelly dealt w ith. The j ur y , to a man, believed her. Mr Hopley replies that she has p er j ure d h erse lf. H e m ust be insane not to perceive that the gr a ce and tenderness of the l e tters which he hi mse lf pro d uces f rom h e r, are the strongest companion easier to o f a pos sible argument against e whisoarnssearntidoni.llulstedis far be lieve that th e woman who wrote them was, in spite of her love ;and afftctio monomaniac that t o b e li eve h er capable of h avi ng given false and fraudul en t t est i mony f or the purpose of ruinin g an innocent and virtuous husband. Nor was his wife's tes timony unsupported. Servants were called to corroborate her in important particulars; and though Mr. Hopley in sinuates that their character was not of the best description the only alternative theory to that of his own guilt is the theory of a domestic conspiracy between his whe i his wife's family, and his own household. The fact that none of his pupils were privy to any of the conduct of which he was accused goes for very little. The strictest conjugal discip. linarian would not be likely to punish his wife, so to speak, upon parade, and in the presence o f a regiment of boys. Even Mr. Quilp did not pinch Mrs. Quilp when strangers were looking on. He chose quiet moments, when nobody observed him, and made her life a burden to her without violating decent conventionalities. Mr. Hopley is a man whose vanity and dignity would preserve him from the error of making his matrimonial training a by -word in his house and schoolroom ; and if, as seems probable, his cruelty is only a form of pedagogeism run mad, he pro bably inflicts unhappiness on those under his iron rule upon a strictly decorous system. If We wished for an instance of the truth, that men who Commit crimes are not wholly bad, we do not know Whither we could better turn than in the case of such a man. lir. Hopley with tears protests that he is not a demon, or a butcher, or a murderer. The social philanthropist knows well that those who draw upon themselves the indignant censures of society are rarely demons. There is often soma good in them, as in Mr , l ienley, coupled with a monstrous want of self-control iu One direction, which poisons their whole nature, and ruins their "a hole life. The consciousness of some good intentions and some noble ambitions is a possession I which Mr Hopley shares with not a few of the greatest tyrants of history. It is not the pleasure of any generous mind to trample on a fallen man, or to outrage even Mr Hopley by comparisons which would be insulting and Unjust. It is quite enough to say that his pamphlet by no means makes us regret that Mrs Hopley has escaped from his society, His self-delu sions aro probably Fenuine, but they amount to disease. In carrying out his vain s ad inflexible plans he has done much harm and caused much unhappiness; and his tone and temper render it probable that in his obstinate blind ness to his own defects, he may cause still more unhappi ness heron) he dies. THE "EXAMINER" ON Two SOYEREIGNS AT VIENNA. —The Germans have certa inl y reaso n to be proud. They have outrun all other people for the m omen t, an d s t e p for not equalled by Prussia. "ward as the most prominen t at least of the European world. The obstinacy and wilfulne ss of the Americans, their turn for bloodshed too, certainty are But in the old world, iswhat talked o f but Germany Russia seems to be under an eclipse. Italy is unobtrusive ; the French Emperor running unlucky France up to her ears in debt; England quietly minding her own business. Other nations aro asking what the Germans will next beat. Wiil they reconquer Lombardy or claim Alsen ? That so powerful an alliance should limit itself to the acqui sition of the poor little province of Schleswig is not an adrquate reosit. The Emperor of Austria and the King of Fruesia have met at Vienna. Now the anxiety is great to know who is to be the next enemy, and where lies the prey whose turn it is to be devoured. Their last joint meal, the victim of this summer, has, however, yet to be devoured and digested ; and it was precisely to rub beaks over this carcase that the Eagles of Prussia and Austria were gathered toge ther. The meeting was like fire and water. As is evident from the explosion of hostility which burst forth immediately from the press of Vienna and that of Berlin. It is remark able how these organs, more or less, of the two peoples and the two Governments, have exchanged their traditional tone. So much so, that to look merely at the papers, one at Vienna might fancy himself in Berlin, and Berlin has the air of Vienna, Berlin used to be for progress, and given to sneer at the stationary and gligEish nature of Vienhit, Now the Berlin writerS have all steeled their pens in npolsonic ink, and are giving vent to doctrines completely of the French Imperialist school. The spirit of Herr von Bismark might have inspired M. Persigny's speech of the other day. But von Bismark is, it seems, too Imperialist for the Court of the old Cassese. He finds no one there to assent to his doctrine, save Count Rechberg. And even ho smiles at Bismark's soldatesque diatribes against Constitutionalists Bismark and the Prussian organs denounce all Liberals as democrats. Every person and every idea, that is in oppo sition to him, he stigmatises as democrat. And he no doubt treats Schmerling himself as a democrat quite as dangerous as Waldeck. However, the official prints of Berlin have not arrived at a denunciation of all Austria as democratic. Their present target is Schleswig- Holstein. Eight or ten months ago the people of the Duchies were objects of popu lar sympathy and admiration to the Prussians, even to Prussian officials. Now they are treated as mere demo rats, bent on anarchy, and absurdly given to independence. According to the sound Prussian version, the only right thinking and well-behaved portion of the population are the Danish peasants; for the German traders of the Schleswig towns are, it seems, deplorable radicals, who, if endowed with freedom, would offer a worse example to Germany than the Danes themselves. On this political plea, much insisted on at Vienna, Bismark would keep military posses sion of the Duchies, which he declares would be utterly lost to Conservative Government if Duke Frederick were in stalled. Bismark abhors the Duke far more than he ever abhorred Christian, and ho abhors still more the men who surround Duke Frederick, and who were more or less mixed up with, and remain the friends of, the great movement of 1848, In however strong language this may have been re presented by Bismark at Vienna, it still did not seem to prove to the Austrians that either Prussia should keep pos session of the Duchies or that she should hand them over to an obedient nominee. Austria insists that Germany, and not Austria or Prussia, should profit by her conquests. Prussia had proposed to oust the Federal Commission from Holstein, Austria objected, and the Federal Commission remains, in stead of the inber ins, which Prussia recommended. More over, Austria considered that Prussia had made an unfair and unwarrantable choice in Scheele Plessen to defend at the Conference the pecuniary interests of the Duchies. Scheele Plessen was one of the nobles of the Duchies, who professed attachment to the reigning power of Denmark, yet headed the opposition in the Chamber against Denmark, and thus upset the object of their attachment. Scheele Plessen would govern the Duchies by a senate and without a duke, who might interfere with the aristocracy and its pretensions. He is, theref ore, beloved of Bismark. But the Austrian Government, more liberal, insisted that Reincke, the Altona banker, a truly liberal and popular Holsteiner, who had been one of the deputation to England, should be joined with Scheele Plessen to represent sincerely and essentially the great commercial and pecuniary interests of the duchy to which Altona belongs. A knowledge of these circumstances must add to Austria's character and influence, and thereby induce the Emperor not to hearken to Bismark's wild advice. It is well known that this Minis ter would have se . zed and appropriated the Duchies had the King, his master, consented, and this ho would still do, even at the risk of a quarrel with Austria, could he obtain permission. The King, however, is some check upon his Minister's foreign policy, althohgh in domestic matters, and in the virtual abolition of representative Government in Prussia, King William seems to have given carte blanche to the Prussian Strafford. THE " SPECTATOR" ON CAPT. MAYNE REID AS THE LAWGIVER OF CROQUET.-All devotees of croquet must be satisfied with the progress made in the c/ilitcs of their favourite game during the present year. For the last three years and more the game has gone on progressing every day in popular favour, and gradually fascinating . even the most obdurate opponents—for croquet, like all other good movements, has had no small amount of opposition to con tend with. It was soon found that the direct mode of attack must be abandoned, and in a very short time after the introduction of the game there were comparatively few left who openly dared to assail it, while the majority of mal contents had to console themselves by malignant insinua supposed to take a holiday is of itself a sufficient warning to ambition ; and, from the celebrated " Give us your paw young'un" story, it is evident that when Lord Palmerston visits a go-ahead town like Bradford, he thinks t i ohnne t ee e c duce,ttl,a,:.ht time the eb eo r en u ne l ecporofontrthethreeeai habit,rvi m u tegd l o e osbdtfy. and atrnhnOudeeenml enterprising the devices rpvef t ri o h ei srceeimisnr ncgooueffwi tailorat e tt h hsei newest, that something of the Yankee pump-handle must be introduced. But it is pictorially that our principal statesmen are chiefly doomed to suffer. The enorneou , s facilities for multiplying likenesses which have been created by modern discovery are in perpetual requisi tionoeey;eer.inging the peculiar cut of his garments Eighteen victims of more or less dis tinctionka and dd a t i o ts beforef for the t p ha u er r e po s se publicel wearing 18 of the habilineents upon which the ingenious tradesman chiefly prides hie n self. The Queen serves as an Basq ue vote I to displaying the elegant ected, an t advertising the p rin o es Princess block Alexandraf ora i is de proportions of the swallow-tail. ,Lord Palmerston figures in a negligrie suit, Lord Russell is selected as the fittest model for exhibiting the merits of a P riding suit," Lord Derby wears the honcurs of a 4 6 ceeetertield ove r c oat, " and Mr Disraeli, from some ethnologicel co. efusien in the mind-of the artist which it is difficult to tt:leth appears as the ideal wearer of the "Inverness cape!' But the chief sufferings of our public men are from the Lew art of photography. Since the cheap carte de visite cams into fashion, and still more since it became the correct thing to have a carte de visite album on everybody's table, the furious demand of the public for likenesses to fill these albums has been quite uncontrollable, and the consequent labour thrown on photographers and their sitters has been very great. There is no need to pity the photographers, for they are well paid for their labours, and the more furious the de mand becomes the better they will like it. But the Cabinet Minister's case is a harder one. There are three principal duties which attach to his eminent position. He has to manage his department,to attend in his place in Parliament, and to sit for his carte de visite. The first two duties are considered in the estimates; but the last, and (upon a hot day) the heaviest, has to be performed gratuitously. Of course it is necessary, in so many sittings, to contrive a little variety, and the ingenuity which must be brought to bear to attain this end cannot but be very exhausting. The Bishop of Oxford, who, in this as in other matters, loves to accumu late labour, is photographed as often as a Cabinet Minister, is satisfied with striking out as many attidudes in relation to a curtain and a pillar, as the restricted number of human limbs will permit. But the changes which can be rung upon this combination are necessarily limited. You cannot do much with a pillar except lean upon it, and, unless you stand in front of a curtain, you can do nothing else with it except get it between your legs, Mr Gladstone has pre• ferred the more fertile reseurce of different changes of dress and with no little ingenuity he has made them symbolise the particular phase of political existence through which he happens to be passing. When he was the great Finance Minister carrying out the great treaty, he presented himself to the photograper in the official dress of a Chancellor of the Exehequer. But finance has fallen a little into the background of late. Other aspirations have taken the place of those of the pure financier; other claims to a possible Premiership than those which rest upon the suffrages of the trading community are being sedulously cultivated. Accordingly, Mr Gladstone presents himself before the lens in the Court-dress of a Privy Councillor. It is not a pretty dress. On the contrary, a profane stranger, unacquainted with its sacred associations, would describe it as something between the dresses of a postilion and a buf foon. It is, in fact, rather an extreme specimen of the taste which governs the selection of most of our Court cos tumes. It required some courage in a grave statesman to have himself immortalised in white kerseymere shorts; but no doubt Mr Gladstone felt that the dress, though ugly, was symbolical of a present policy, and prophetic of a bril liant future, But it is upon Lord Palmerston that the chief burden of the Administration falls in the photographic as in every other department of Ministerial duty. We are informed by the journals most in his confidence that, at the end of July last, he honoured the Stereoscopic Com pany with a sitting at which no less than four dozen negatives were taken. There are very few people who are not able, from their own recollections, to illustrate the amount of endurance which this announcement reveals. The retreat of a photographer, built at the top of a tall house, roofed in with glass like a hot-house and concentrating the rays of the sun almost with the force of a burning glass, is probably the hottest place of confine ment known to human suffering on this side of Calcutta. Allowing two minutes and a half to each negative—and very few sitters escape from the oven at half so cheap a rate—the Prime Minister must have undergone at least a good two hours' thorough baking, under the full power of a July sun, in his anxiety to "spread his likeness broad cast o'er the land," When he took office, he probably never calculated on labour such as these. The Treasury Bench does not look comfortable, and there must be a monotony in the sensation it communicates when you I have to sit on it for nine or ten hours a day. But it must be pleasant, and even luxurious, compared to a protracted session in a photographer's bakery. Listening to his own colleague, Mr Denman, upon the case of the Baron de Bode, is usually supposed to have been the severest trial to which even the veteran Prime Minister and the well-seasoned officials of the house were ever exposed; but it must have been an exciting pas time compared to posing far two hours before a lens in a pothouse. It cannot be said that all this labour has pro duced much variety in the resulting portraits. The object of them all is much the same as the object of the nume rous speeches which the Premier has spent the month of August in making. Both equally serve the purpose of advertising unabated juvenility to the world, This ob ject the photographs undoubtedly effect for the positions are carefully selected, and great vigour of posture, and some vivacity of expression, is preserved. No one would gather from them that our Prime Minister was a joker of jokes, or that he owes much of his continued success to the dexterity with which he deadens the thrust of an attack by shielding himself behind a defence of particu larly bad chaff. The face is anything but merry or cheer ful. It is the weary face of one who has been much in oourts, and knows how to go resignedly through any amount of ennui. In some, probably those which came early in the portentous sitting, there is an expression of business-like attention, as though the sitter was still fresh, and could fancy himself transacting his ord:nary offieial duties. Some even look contemptuous, and half ernitn;g, as though he enjoyed the absurdity of the position. But as, .the series goes on, the countenance becomes more and more ;lead, the eyes more and more destitute of ex pression, as though his force were yielding to the op pressive influences of the hour. At length this change of feature culminates) in one which must evidently have been the last of the sales, and which is deeply pathetic. It bears the lineaments of a man heroically struggling, Lut on the point of giving way. The powers of endurance have failed e t last. It seems to say, in tones of despairing remonstrance, " I am but a man of 80, after all; you have put me through what half my colleagues would have fainted under—how can you expect me to stand quite still and wear a tranquil expression of countenance for the 48th picture ?" A copy of the carte ought to be presented to all premien:s undergraduates in either Unii . versity who are likely to talte to po litics, as a warning o f t successful statesmen have) to ge through. tions and disparaging whisperings. It soon became clear that a great want had been supplied--that of an out-door game of skill and variety in which ladies could join sufficiently simple for anybody to become a moderately good player, and yet capable under favJurable circum stances of being carried to a point requiring almost as much precision and delicacay of play as billiards itself. But it is only within the last month that croquet has gained a crowning triumph. The majesty of the law has been invoked, and no less a personage than a S' ice- Chancellor has been occupied in determining to what extent the rules of the game are private or public property. It has been the great drawback to the full development of the game ever since its original establishment that no consistent and complete code of laws was in existence. All the toy makers who seized upon the game at the first as the means of making exorbitant profits by the sale of very ornamental but too often excessively unsuitable implements, issued brief directions for play with their sets, but these were all insufficient and generally worse than useless. The conse quence was that even if the players on any particular lawn succeeded in agreeing upon the fundamental conditions of the garue,questions of construction and interpretation were continually arising during the game which it was impossible to leave unsettled without depriving the game of its main elements of interest. Even if any community of friends ma naged to settle a working code of rules amongst themselves, the establishment of the district croquet clubs now so widely in progress was seriously hindered, as it was next to im poesible that a match could be carried on between any two clubs he which some difference of practice or insoluble diffi culty di',l not arise. Everybody was calling for a code of laws which might be fairly expected to meet with general acce ptation, would provide for every situation that could arise, and would tfula: ish croquet-players with a settled vocabulary of technical ea";aressions, or, to use a shorter and more expressive phrase, °` croquet slang." Now it appears from the proceedings in e;:eancery, to which we have referred, that this great deeideratZ. sm of a croquet playing generatton had struck Captain Maine Reid some twelve months or more ago, and with cLaracteriatic energy ho immediately devoted himself to the task of supplying the want. He seems to have entered upon his task with all the keenness and perseverance of one' of his own Indian heroes on a war trial, and during four months he occupied himself in studying all possible combinations and contingencies that can arise, as well as the best croquet materials and other ,necessaries of the game. After mature deliberation he formulated his experience in the shape of 126 distinct rules, with explana tory footnotes, besides a vocabulary of " slang " and many general remarks, all of his own composition, and published the collection towards; the close of last year. The coda bore the practical test Of play, and before long naturally came into extensive use amongst croquet-players. Captain Mayne Reid was naturally desirous ef. securing the credit duo to himself for his arduous labours, anJ he was surprised the other day on taking up a work entitles:ls "The Rules of Croquet, revised by art old hand," to find than of the ninety three rules contained in it the majority were simpYy the re sults of his own experience and ingenuity much abbrWated but occasionally transcribed literally by the compiler or "revisor,'' and sold by hilts at the prig of sixpence, while that of his own work was half-a-crelfl)/ Upon inquiry he found the " Old Hand " had some mysterious connection with the manufacturer of certain pat erns and designs of croquette; io known as the Cassiobury set, and on application to the publisher whose name appeared to the " Old Hand's work it came Lut that the "Old Hand" himself was in reality iot to be sought for very far from Cassiobury—that the Earl of Essex w as the individual who had thus sought an aristou:atic sh ort cut to learning in the laws and practice of croquet. Now , it seems from this that our great peers are far from bans, the mere useless drones in the hive that certain classes would have us believe. Lord Essex, being a croquet-player, and also a proprietor of timber, thought that he might ad vantageously turn his knowledge of the former to business account as well as the latter, so he accordingly set up in life as croquet manufacturer as well as peer. Of course the good points of crogloterie with a handle to its name were rapidly seen by an impressionable British public, and Lord Essex dcubtless turned many an honest penny by his first venture in business life. But unfortunately he thought it essential to the completeness of the Cassiobury sot that it should be accompanied by a code of laws, and by a strange coincidence those which he adopted were in numerous in stances verbally identical with those of Capt. Mayne Reid. The latter not seeing why Lord Essex, Whether in his capa city of peer or manufacturer, or under his incognito of "An Old Hand," should be entitled to the results of other people's work, demanded an explanation and the withdrawal of the work. Lord Essex being, as he now alleges, igno rant of the extent to which the piracy had been carried, re fused either, and Captain Reid then had recourse to Vice- Chancellor Kindersley, and Lord Essex, who apparently became aware how untenable his ease really was, agreed on Friday last to withdraw the book, to destroy all copies re maining unsold, to pay Captain Mayne Reid £125 as com pensation, and also to pay all costs of the suit—a result which must materially disturb the proportions of the new manufacturer's balance-sheet for his first year. Lord Essex has scarcely yet attained a degree of circumspection and acuteness in business commensurate with the ingenuity of his operations. Ho is now at least too old a hand to allow a friend to compile a book of croquet rules without his own superintendence. There were no pre-existing laws of croquet, and Captain Mayne Reid's work was to all intents and purposes an oi igival c omposition,the result of consider able exertion and thought, and no one can complain be cause he has been'protected in reaping the fruit of his labours, even though a slight cheek has been inflicted upon the business enterprise of a noble Earl. Tun " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON TUE PENALTIES 01' GREATNESS. — The peculiar development which hero-wore ship has recently taken in this country makes it very de sirable that people in exalted positions should not be afflicted with the miefortune of shyness. In America, popular good will has to be conciliated by direct personal appearance before the people, and to a great extent by contact with them. "Going on the stump," and "the pump-handle movement," are the two tributes paid in the land of freedom to*the supremacy of popular principles. With us matters are not quite so bad, although they are getting worse every year. The oratorical treadmill upon which our chief states men have to go in the Beam of the year when they are SECOND EDITION• SUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 O'CLOCK. TURKEY. TRIESTE, Sept. 2.—Letters from Constantinople of the 27th state that an insurrectional movement has broken out in the arrondissement of Payaz, in Syria. The insurgents occupy the roads from Marasch to Alexandretta, and from Adane to Aleppo. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK. TAT TERSALL'S---This Evening, DONCASTER ST LEGER. 5 to 2 agst General I'cel (taken and offered) 3to 1 aget Blair Athol (taken and offered) 9to 1 agst Minor (offered) 100 to 6 agst Baragah (offered) 100 to 6 agst Ely (offered) 25 to 1 agst Master Richard (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Catnbuscan (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agA Knight of Snowden (offered) 40 to 1 agst Peon (take 50 to 1) Claremontßlack Kock oe ( off (taken)ere d 10 5 0 0 0 t t o o 151 agsta gst B THE DERBY. .1000 to 35 agst Wizard's dam colt (taken) 1000 to 35 agst Archimedes (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Brown Dayrell (taken) ARRIVALS AT WARWICK. Lady Egidia, Attraction, Oldminster, Tilt, Birdfinder, and Disappointment. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE---This Day, CITY BETTING—Tuts DAY. ST. LEGER. 5 to 2 agat General Peel (taken) 3 to 1 eget Blair Athol (offered) 9 to 2 eget Miner (taken) 15 to 1 agst Baragah (taken) 100 to 6 agst Master Richard (taken) 20 to 1 agst Ely (offered) 25 to 1 agst Knight of Snowdon (taken) 40 to 1 agst Claremont (taken) 30 to 1 eget Breeze (offered) 20 to 1 agst Cambuscan (taken) LEAMINGTON STARES, 3 to 1 agat Bradamante (taken) 6 to 1 agst Teneriffe (taken) 6 to 1 agst Catch 'em Alive (taken) 7 to 1 agst Revolver (taken) 7 to 1 agst Despair (taken) Friendless and Fallen. TO TUE EDITOR OF TUE SUN. Sir,—Will you favour me with a small space in your columns (just now I presume there is less pressure) to plead the cause of those who cannot ordinarily ask help for themselves, viz., friendless and fallen females ? By the first class are meant those who have maintained their moral integrity, but through adverse circumstances are placed in great danger ; the second, those who have fallen a prey to the vile arts of the betrayer, and are consequently thrust out of the pale of society to drift down to misery, temporal and eternal, unless rescued by some friendly hand. Nor is this plea urged on behalf of those belonging by birth to any particular country or pro fessing any particular creed. All are alike welcome. The committee of the London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution have resolved to seek to do good to poor females upon the broadest possi• ble basis, seeking to save all as far as their funds would permit ; and out of the 1,300 poor creatures already received into the Humes, nearly every vil lage and town in the United Kingdom has supplied a subject, as well as the continent of Europe, Africa, Asia, and America. And, thank God, of those received about three-fourths have been permanently reclaimed. The committee seek the accomplishment of their mission in five distinct Homes, where the inmates are fed, lodged, clothed, and instructed free of all• charge to them. When all these Homes are full, 3iooo meals per week have to be provided for the support of inmates ; and for this one expense, as well as every other, the committee are absolutely dependent upon daily voluntary con tributions. When the necessary period of proba tion expires, they are provided with suitable situations, restored to their friends, or assisted to emigrate. Oh, sir, if your space permitted, I could present to your readers some painfully interesting facts, gathered during my thirteen years' labours in this department of Christian philanthropy. How ever, there is one which I must allude to. I have said 1,300 have been admitted. This is cheering ; but I have been compelled to refuse 500 applications a year, simply for want of larger funds. What be.• comes of these rejected ones ? The echo says, What? And I would that I could make it ring in the ears of every adult in the land, cautioning our often too confiding maidens, compelling our young men to realise their duty to protect the weaker sex rather to betray them, or supinely leave the betrayed to their unhappy fate ; and every parent to throw around their daughters all the protection that is pos sible, in order to shield them while passing through the critical period of youth. I would still further urge this plea by reminding the reader of a fact patent to all, viz„ that of necessity tens of thou sands of young women are compelled by the force of circumstances to leave their homes in remote country districts and seek a living by dos mestc servitude or otherwise in London, far away from natural protection and sympathy, and often to confront with fierce and subtle temptation by which many fall, more sinned against than sinning ; and furthermore, not a few, when so overtaken, would be for ever lost but for the efforts of the so ciety for which I plead. In asking for contribu tions, I solicit small sums as well as large, the poor widow's mite as well as the rich man's cheque. It is a blessed work of mercy, in which all aro invited to join according to their ability, by remitting postageastamps, post. office orders, See. I would also recommend persons interested to send for a copy of the prospectus of the society, which gives an epitome of the work done.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, 200, Euston-road, London, N. W. E. THOMAS, Secretary. Bankers.—Messrs. Bosanquet and Co., 73, Lom bard•street, E. C. -- The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2i per mine pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.271 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of L 3 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 2-ICths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advic:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.5 i per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, 2-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is quoted 2761 to 278 per cent., and the pre mium on gold 1551 to ,57 percent. Go:d still continues to u. rilve in moderate quantities. To Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Derby, Lord WharnelLifet and two other gentlemen shot over Long shawe_moor, near Hathersage, on Tuesday and Wednesday, and had good s i%ort. On the first-named day the five guns procigced 209 i brat:e of grouse. MR. WEEKE'S :,rATUE OF TORN BUNTER, which was exhibited this year at the Royal Academy, has been placed in the Hunterian Pi/learnt College of Surgeo ns , Lincoln's-inn-fields. 'AN ENERGETIC AS WELL 'AS GIFTED ARTIST.— Mr. Leighton has in band three pictures, which will probably appear at the neat Royal Academy Exhibition. These are, 1, a subject from the Iliad, Helen going with two attendants to the Susan Gate of Troy, to satisfy her craving to see her husband and kinsfolk, before the pro posed duel between Menelaus and Paris ; this work com prises three figures, life size. No. 2 is from the Psalms, David sitting on the roof of his palace and gazing at the hills, " Oh, that I had wings like a dove," &a. No. 3is a genre subject, a woman and child, the latter holding a basket of cherries. This artist is engaged to paint the'portrait of the Prince of Wales for the Fishmongers' Hall. full-length, with the garter and robes ; also that of the Princess of Wales. Mr Leighton has departed for Florence, in order to assist at the erection of the beautiful monument of Mre Browning, which was designed by himself, and which we recently described. This work will be finished in October next. A despatch from Marseilles announces the death at Rome of Cardinal Savelli, ex-minister, and formerly governor of that city, in his 72nd year. Linant-Bey, Minister of Public Works to the Viceroy of Egypt, has left Marseilles for Alexandria on board the Maris, Cambrian Consol. Gold ultilord Amalgamated I Devon G. Conn. ,'Taoist , East Bassett (Illozan) East Clogau Gold Ltd East Caradon ..... East Carn Brea... E. WI Russul (Tavistk.) Gam..tSt.Aubyn(G wen Great South Tolgus IG. Wheal Vor (lielston Grenville . Her&irs-Foot ingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (Gny Lelaut arke Valley.. Alyndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 'New Setun North Downs; Basset( I Hogan, North Wheal Crotty tar Consols (St. Blazey Providence (Uny Leint.)l JSouthCaradon(St.Cleer, S. Cara Brea (Illogan) S. Wheal Fran. Stray Park rantar Lead Alin. fin Croft West Basset (Illoian), W Cr radon (Liskeard) West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) Wheal Buller(Kedruth) Wheal Kitty (U.Lclant; WhealLudeott Wheal Mary Ann ;Men ) Wheal Beton Wheal Trelawney (Lis ) Wheal Union I 30 32 580 590 67 69 27 2S 7} 7/ 5 Si 5 7 2 2i 27 28 7/ 8 88 40 31 41 7 9 4i 6 1} I d i 5 S 5 1} 2 22 3 32 40 42 :00 520 421 47.1 28 30 38 19 8 9 9k 101 215 220 92 P 5 18 20 2.0.8 3.5. S 8 68i 7 1i 2 14 16 210 215 19 21 14 2 PREFERENCE SIIARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent.. 110 Great Western, Birnungham gua. stock, 721 North - Eastern, Cons. pret'., 4 per cent.,: — Ditto, 4} per cent red., 93 North Eastern, Stockton and Darlington, B and C 6 per cent., 32} PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 4k per cent. pf., 91 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL. North Eastern—Hartlepool, 130 FOREJGN RAILTATE. Antwerp and Rotterdam, k Central Argentine, 21 South Austrian and Lombardo T:enetian, 211 West Flanders, 7i Cobre Copper, 31 ' F OR P AGN NINES, St. John del Rey 35i BANKS. Alliance ( 11 11 , 51 16 49 Alo Ditto , new, 46 A ug . r Austrian, 76 alasia, 735 B ank of British Columbia, 15; Bank of Egypt, 276 7 Brazilian and Portuguese, Um., 126 British and Californian, lim., 5 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and Chink 38 City, 124 5 Consolidated Bank, lira., 101 Eastern Exchange, 3 i European Bank, lim. 13 Hi ndustan, Chi na , and Japan (Um.), 32 7,, „ Im perial Bank aim.). 345 3 Ditto, new, 23 Imperial Otton-utp, International B ink, lim., 181 Land Mort',";apx Bank of India, lim., 4i 5 London and Brazilian slim,), 345 London and Comity. 731 I, OD don, Hamburg Cont. Exchange, litn., 1 3 6 London Joint Stock, 42ti London and South - Western, 23 London and 11 estmlnster, 1/71 Merchant Bank, lim., 264 Mercantile and Exchange. Bin., 14k 14 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 241 6 National Provincial of Enuland. -- Ditto, ditto, :786 New Zealan:l Bank Corporation. Bin., Scinde, Pno,lpub, and Delta, lim., 12 South Australia, fiti South Elstern, ' Union of Australi a , 52 1 Union of London, 511 2k DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 68 Southampton, 54 MISCELLANEOUS. Commercial Union, Lisaran,:e, 8 Credit Fonder, l 2; 13 Credit Mebiiitr, 12; 13 Discount Corporation,l9l 19 East India irrigation and Canal, 5 Ebbw Vale, 4a a Egyptian COM, and Trading, Um., 3i , 291 0 I+l 401 120 6Si 1 1151 I 112 i I 951 * 1071 131 6 1051 6 831 i 1.14.0 3.4.0 8.13.0 58t 17s 6.16.( 8.12 4.18.0 , 2.8.6 i.o 19f 3 3.1.0 2.6.9 10.0.7 li 18.18.01 ;30.17.6; SKIPPING -THIS DAY, Fraasssed, Sept. 5.- Sept. 5-----'---IGVltindAv'Esaßz:,°:no'ndSaYWM. o ; r n e i t n r g o . n g (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPII,) Arrived, Sept. 4.—America, from Punta Arenas; Main, 1 from St. Wiens. Arrived, Sept. s.—Verwesseling, from Gothenburg ; Ebenezer, from Cronstadt. bre L e O zo ND ard ' fin e . Sailed, Sept. s.—Seine, steamer, for Boulogne; Cissy, f or . Shanghai. DEAL, Monday Morning. 4. — Prohesa, for dalcombe; Auaious, for Adelaide;sed, Nei.`' for Halifax—all from London. from Rangoon--all for London. from Calcutta ; Agra, _ --Star of Erin, and Anglo-Indian, ship, _ It is very painful," says the Church .- I? " letV ' THE AMENITIES OF CO:TROVERSY.—" " to have to a case in which the publish the following letter ; but :in principle of maintaining intact the law s. f the Church in respect to holy matrimony is directly invo b, ed, we cannot hesitate :—' East Brent, Weston-super-11Iare, n ug. 20. My dear Lord, —Having been constrained to withdrs.'w my name from the list of vice-presidents cf the Church Ctsl gress, proposed to be held at Bristol in Oetoissr next, and to decline to take any part in the proceedings of th' Congress, I feel that it is due to others, as to myself, to state the ground upon which I have done this, and I know Pf no way so fitting as that of a letter addressed to yourseli, as president, and afterwards made public. The Dean of Bristol, whose name appears on the list of vice presidents, has placed himself in a position which I believe to bo irreconcileable with the law of the Church of England, though it be not only allowed but sanctioned by the law of the land. Some of my brethren may regard that position as doubtful only ; it appears to me to be ascertained. Others may be content that the law of the Church should bo in all respects subor dinated to the law of the land : I aim not so content. It appears to use that when the laws conflict, as we must be prepared to see them conflict from time to time—it is one thing to bear the distress and the trial patiently, and to hope and pray for batter times ; it is quite another thing to deal with the Church's law as with what has, on that account, ceased to be any longer a rule of life. Under those circum stances I have withdrawn my name ; having special regard to the fact that the point at issue in this painful matter is whether the law of the Church is to be reg arded by Church men as of no authority as soon as it ceases to be in accord ance with the law of the land, or whether it is to be re garded as having, under such conditions, the same binding authority as before. IL- appea rs to me that a Church Con gress, of which the Deah of Bristol is vice•president, does, in effect, affirm the first of these two positions and deny the last ; and 1 respectfully submit that it is as little by depre ciation or disparagement of the Church's law as by undue exaltation of it that we can hope to preserve unimpaired, and for the good of all, the great blessings of Church and State. Believe me, my dear Lord, Very truly and faithfully yours, GEORGE A. DENISON, —1: he Lord Bishop of Gloves , ter and ._ whai ! g.#